{"id":3701,"date":"2010-04-21T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:18:44","slug":"orange-prize-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/04\/21\/orange-prize-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Prize Shortlist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the six shortlisted titles for the 2010 Orange Prize. The winner will be announced on June 9.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosie Alison: <strong><em>The Very Thought of You<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Barbara Kingsolver: <strong><em>The Lacuna<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Attica Locke: <strong><em>Black Water Rising<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hilary Mantel: <strong><em>Wolf Hall<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lorrie Moore: <em>A<strong> Gate at the Stairs<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Monique Roffey: <strong><em>The White Woman on the Green Bicycle<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of these yet, and for the near future (well, relatively near) I only plan to read <em>Wolf Hall<\/em>, which, because it has already been picking up loads of awards, must be the favorite here. I&#8217;ve heard much too much bad about <em>The Lacuna<\/em> and <em>The Gate at the Stairs<\/em> to make me want to read them, but they keep getting positive publicity too.\u00a0The other three I haven&#8217;t looked into. Does anyone have a prediction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for this year&#8217;s Orange Prize has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/04\/21\/orange-prize-shortlist-announced\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Orange-Prize-Logo.png?fit=248%2C257&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-XH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18561,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/18561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}